St. Louis Gateway Rail: The 1970s book
St. Louis Gateway Rail: The 1970s book
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Author: Lesley Barker
Number of Pages: 127 pages
Published Date: 09 Aug 2006
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Publication Country: Charleston, SC, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780738540702
File size: 29 Mb
Download Link: st. louis gateway rail the 1970s
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Though the city of St. Louis is located on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, for the railroads, the St. Louis Gateway extends into Illinois, north and south along both sides of the river. Two factors conspired against St. Louis's aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century American Midwest: there was no bridge across the Mississippi, and Missouri's loyalty to the Union during the Civil War was suspect. Chicago beat out St. Louis to attain the region's top railroad billing. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Gateway Arch, dedicated in 1968, redefined the St. Louis riverfront and when the St. Louis Union Station closed to rail service. The 1970s was a decade of railroad debuts--Burlington Northern, Illinois Central Gulf, Family Lines--and a decade of railroad demises--Rock Island and Frisco. It signaled the end of a century of rail domination of the American transportation scene.
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St. Louis Gateway Rail: The 1970s by Lesley Barker
Author: Lesley Barker
Number of Pages: 127 pages
Published Date: 09 Aug 2006
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Publication Country: Charleston, SC, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780738540702
File size: 29 Mb
Download Link: st. louis gateway rail the 1970s
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Though the city of St. Louis is located on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, for the railroads, the St. Louis Gateway extends into Illinois, north and south along both sides of the river. Two factors conspired against St. Louis's aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century American Midwest: there was no bridge across the Mississippi, and Missouri's loyalty to the Union during the Civil War was suspect. Chicago beat out St. Louis to attain the region's top railroad billing. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Gateway Arch, dedicated in 1968, redefined the St. Louis riverfront and when the St. Louis Union Station closed to rail service. The 1970s was a decade of railroad debuts--Burlington Northern, Illinois Central Gulf, Family Lines--and a decade of railroad demises--Rock Island and Frisco. It signaled the end of a century of rail domination of the American transportation scene.
Read online St. Louis Gateway Rail: The 1970s Buy St. Louis Gateway Rail: The 1970s Download and read St. Louis Gateway Rail: The 1970s for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook St. Louis Gateway Rail: The 1970s ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent